Improvement in lanterns



H. IDEN. Lantern.

No. 219,730. Patented Sept. 16,1879.

NJEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY IDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lIMPuovlawnaNT IN LANTERNS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,730, dated September 16, 1879; application iled July 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY 1DEN,ot` the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lanterns, which invent-ion is fully described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical central section of a lantern. Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly in section. Fig. 8 is an edge view of the register.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a lantern provided with a supporting-cup,having its bottom partially cut away, a pipe passing through said bottom, and a register turning about said pipe, said register having certain portions of its edge raised, so as to allow any moisture in the supporting-cup to liow out, as will be here inafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the supporting-cup. This cup Arests on arms or brackets B, rising from a supporting-post; or said arms may be fastened to the wall of a building, or attached in any other suitable place or manner. This supportingcup A carries the dome or glass case G of the lantern. Through the bottom of this cup passes the pipe D, conveying gas, vapor of naphtha, or any other suitable combustible. Said pipe may also be replaced by the burner of an oillamp rising up through said bottom. The

bottom of this cup Ais partially cut away, as shown in Fig. 2, through which opening the gas is lighted, the dome cleaned, and the like. E represents a register turning about the pipe D, and which is moved by the handle b.

When the gas is lighted, the register is closed, and the light will not be put out by any high wind. The projection c, Fig. 3, on the register E prevents said register from being turned too far by striking against the edge of the bottom of the cup A.

The register E has portions a a of its rim slightly raised, Fig. 3. The object of these elevations is to allow any moisture that may gather in the bottom of the cup .A to flow out through the same when the register is closed.

When these lanterns are used on a sea-beach, or other place where the air is often damp, moisture is liable to collect in the bottoni of cup A, and unless the same could flow oli" it would dim the walls of the dome G as soon as the gas was lighted and the lantern slightly heated. By allowing the moisture to flow oi through the elevations a a this objection is entirely overcome.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A lantern provided with a supporting-cup, A, having its bottom partially cut away, pipe D, rising up through said bottom, and register E, turning about said pipe, said register having portions of its edge raised, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my hand this 9th day of July, A. D. 1879.

HENRY IDEN. 

